Researchers from Taiwan and the United States find, in a study of 1,752 inner-city infants born between 1960 and 1965 (the Johns Hopkins Pathways to Adulthood Study), a significant association between unsupportive maternal behavior at eight months and subsequent adult mental health. Results appear in Comprehensive Psychiatry.
Fan, A., Buka, S., Kosik, R., Chen, Y.; Association Between Maternal Behavior in Infancy and Adult Mental Health: A Thirty-Year Prospective Study. Comprehensive Psychiatry. Online October 28, 2013.
We’re not back to the “refrigerator mothers” are we?
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Francesca, I don’t understand your comment. Would you expand it a bit?
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